Re: Cheap Android Tablet

2011-09-14 Thread Scott Rossi
So, by my tally (which could be off) we've had recommendations for these: Acer Iconia 500A (10 in) ViewSonic g (10 in) Asus Transformer (10 in) Nook Color (7 in, need to root) Archos 70 (7 in) Any others? FWIW, the pundits I listen to think the tablet market might be soured (sweetened?) by the

Re: Cheap Android Tablet

2011-09-14 Thread Mark Wieder
Scott- Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 11:04:47 PM, you wrote: On a separate note, I'm wondering if there's some device that can be used as a reference for an Android phone, without having to be a phone (I can't afford a separate cell plan just for testing purposes). My thought was maybe a 7

Re: Cheap Android Tablet

2011-09-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/14/11 1:04 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: On a separate note, I'm wondering if there's some device that can be used as a reference for an Android phone, without having to be a phone (I can't afford a separate cell plan just for testing purposes). My thought was maybe a 7 tablet device could be

Re: iOS initial orientation

2011-09-14 Thread Ian Wood
I've purchased a few iPad apps which don't, they're all games. Ian On 13 Sep 2011, at 21:11, Colin Holgate wrote: Some are stubborn about it, and may take a while before they rotate, but I can't remember seeing one that didn't do the other landscape. On Sep 13, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Andrew

Re: [ANN] Spell With Kyle

2011-09-14 Thread John Craig
About the same - took 7 days to get to 'In Review' then just a few hours to be approved. If anyone wants a look, I can send a promo code - iPad only so far, but I've just submitted an iPhone/iPod version, so looks like another week to wait... On 05/09/2011 12:33, Andrew Henshaw wrote: Its

Re: Cheap Android Tablet

2011-09-14 Thread Roger Eller
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 2:04 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: So, by my tally (which could be off) we've had recommendations for these: Acer Iconia 500A (10 in) ViewSonic g (10 in) Asus Transformer (10 in) Nook Color (7 in, need to root) Archos 70 (7 in) Any others? FWIW, the pundits I listen to

Re: ANN: changes of the Economy-x-Talk website and a new external

2011-09-14 Thread Hal Gumbert
Hi Mark, What you've done rocks. Do you take requests? I'd be interested in a Livecode stack that could upload and download files from Dropbox. http://www.dropbox.com/developers/docs Thanks, Hal -- Hal Gumbert CampSoftware http://www.campsoftware.com Blog: http://www.campsoftware.com/blog

Re: pasting clipboard from Excel

2011-09-14 Thread Colin Holgate
The sleuthing had to change. It turns out to be the width of the columns, not the number of them. Here's a screen recording: http://xfiles.funnygarbage.com/~colinholgate/video/excel_to_lc_dragdrop.mov On Sep 14, 2011, at 12:27 AM, Pete wrote: Good sleuthing!

Re: iOS initial orientation

2011-09-14 Thread Colin Holgate
Can you give an example? On Sep 14, 2011, at 4:51 AM, Ian Wood wrote: I've purchased a few iPad apps which don't, they're all games. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: iOS initial orientation

2011-09-14 Thread Ian Wood
Highborn HD Cogs HD lite They're pretty rare though. Ian On 14 Sep 2011, at 12:59, Colin Holgate wrote: Can you give an example? On Sep 14, 2011, at 4:51 AM, Ian Wood wrote: I've purchased a few iPad apps which don't, they're all games. ___

LiveCode post 3.5 on Linux boxes with no display

2011-09-14 Thread Ben Rubinstein
I'm catching on late to the removal of the command-line options from Rev 4.0 onwards. Specifically, I have a current application which is sometimes run interactively, but can also be run non-interactively from the command line. Today I had a client that wanted to run it on a Linux box,

Re: Cheap Android Tablet

2011-09-14 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Roger Eller wrote: If you are looking for a phone-size form factor device, here are some options. These are tiny wi-fi only tablets (no data plan). You can think of them as the iPod Touch of Android. ;-) http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=217314260

Re: iOS initial orientation

2011-09-14 Thread Colin Holgate
Chillingo are the most successful app company in the history of the universe, so maybe they get special treatment. Not sure how the other guys got away with it. I think you should always try to support the other orientation, even if someone else got away without doing so. On Sep 14, 2011, at

Re: ANN: changes of the Economy-x-Talk website and a new external

2011-09-14 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hal, thanks. You can always ask me for something, but connecting to Dropbox sounds like a large project. I had a look at the API some time ago and I know from experience that such things can take up to a week to implement. I guess that will be too expensive? Feel fre to contact me off-list if

Re: iOS initial orientation

2011-09-14 Thread Josh Mellicker
MetalStorm is another. On Sep 14, 2011, at 5:55 AM, Ian Wood revl...@azurevision.co.uk wrote: Highborn HD Cogs HD lite They're pretty rare though. Ian On 14 Sep 2011, at 12:59, Colin Holgate wrote: Can you give an example? On Sep 14, 2011, at 4:51 AM, Ian Wood wrote: I've

Re: Cheap Android Tablet

2011-09-14 Thread Pete
Scott, There's the ViewSonic 7 (7 inch) as well. You can plug your phone's SIM card into it and use it as a phone). Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:04 PM, Scott Rossi sc...@tactilemedia.comwrote: So, by my tally (which could be off) we've had

Re: LiveCode Hanging freeze needing force quit on shut down sometimes

2011-09-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
Oh right! That was it. Bob On Sep 13, 2011, at 3:44 PM, Dar Scott wrote: I have seen a hang in the IDE when there is an answer/ask during quitting. On OS X you can use the Console for looking at both error messages (even your own written to stdout) and crash logs. Dar

Re: [OT] Viagra from Livecode?

2011-09-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
I don't try to use random non-sense passwords because I can never remember them! I will usually take an obscure word that has no relation to myself, then turn it backwards or inside out, then pre and post numbers and special characters. If someone can develop a method to crack that, then it's

Re: LiveCode post 3.5 on Linux boxes with no display

2011-09-14 Thread Mark Wieder
Ben- Wednesday, September 14, 2011, 6:01:05 AM, you wrote: I'm catching on late to the removal of the command-line options from Rev 4.0 onwards. Specifically, I have a current application which is sometimes run interactively, but can also be run non-interactively from the command line. To

Re: pasting clipboard from Excel

2011-09-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
It looks like it may not be the width of the column, because you have another column there that easily exceeds the width of your test column. Rather, it appears that the excel selection exceeds the visible part of the source window before you start to drag it. Why this would affect anything is

Re: revFontLoad: font size issues?

2011-09-14 Thread Scott Rossi
Curt: Are you building on a Mac system and then transferring to Windows? I've found that I have to explicitly set font styling at startup when creating cross-platform stacks that use something other than the default fonts and sizes. You might try this and see if it makes a difference. Another

Re: [OT] Viagra from Livecode?

2011-09-14 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 09/14/2011 06:43 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I don't try to use random non-sense passwords because I can never remember them! I will usually take an obscure word that has no relation to myself, then turn it backwards or inside out, then pre and post numbers and special characters. If someone

displaying Application.icns file images?

2011-09-14 Thread Kee Nethery
How does one display via Livecode, an icon image inside a .icns file? I can drag an application icon onto a stack and have Livecode find it's .icns file. But I don't know how to open the .icns file and use one of the images inside to display in the stack. Is there a way to do this? Kee

Re: displaying Application.icns file images?

2011-09-14 Thread Kee Nethery
My apology, I should have looked harder. Found the solution in a forum thread. Sorry for wasting bandwidth. http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=7t=7764 Kee On Sep 14, 2011, at 10:21 AM, Kee Nethery wrote: How does one display via Livecode, an icon image inside a .icns file? I can

Re: Scaling to device for Android

2011-09-14 Thread Maarten Koopmans
I think we are on the same page, it's just that *I* have to do the work... But the end result is probably better. On Tuesday, September 13, 2011, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: I think we're on the same page: the logic in a logical view is in your resizeStack handler. If I

Re: revFontLoad: font size issues?

2011-09-14 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 09/14/2011 11:34 PM, Curt Ford wrote: Scott, thanks for the ideas.. I'm not sure what you mean by explicitly setting the font styling at startup - would that be setting the textSize textFont of the stack, or something else? In a handler, or the stack's property inspector, or both? I've

Re: How to set tab positions in the RTFtext?

2011-09-14 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 09/15/2011 12:02 AM, Roger Eller wrote: I've been busily coding colorized htmlText in a table field. Now, the users want me to make it export to an RTF file and retain the colors. When I do this, the data goes off the page and wraps each line because my tabstops are not preserved in the RTF

Re: How to set tab positions in the RTFtext?

2011-09-14 Thread Roger Eller
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: On 09/15/2011 12:02 AM, Roger Eller wrote: I've been busily coding colorized htmlText in a table field. Now, the users want me to make it export to an RTF file and retain the colors. When I do this, the data goes off the page and

Re: [OT] Viagra from Livecode?

2011-09-14 Thread Judy Perry
I tried doing the random nonsense passwords exactly once and ended up having to log in most of my students myself by hand. Never again. Now I make their account logins and passwords the same thing: FirstInitialLastname. I think it's okay to assume that a reasonable number of them know how

How to set tab positions in the RTFtext?

2011-09-14 Thread Mark Stuart
Hi Roger, Tthe tabstop is \tab in WordPad? What are you using as a tabstop in the HTML field? Just replace it with \tab, right? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: How to set tab positions in the RTFtext?

2011-09-14 Thread Paul Dupuis
See http://www.biblioscape.com/rtf15_spec.htm#Heading32 On 9/14/2011 5:02 PM, Roger Eller wrote: I've been busily coding colorized htmlText in a table field. Now, the users want me to make it export to an RTF file and retain the colors. When I do this, the data goes off the page and wraps

Re: How to set tab positions in the RTFtext?

2011-09-14 Thread Roger Eller
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Mark Stuart mstu...@adaptcrm.com wrote: Hi Roger, The tabstop is \tab in WordPad? What are you using as a tabstop in the HTML field? Just replace it with \tab, right? The field is a regular table field with tabstops. I loop through the text and replace a

Loading a local file into a UIWebView control

2011-09-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
I can't get a local file to load into a UIWebView control. The control loads a remote url from my server okay, so it's working. The file has been copied to the app's documents folder and is valid. I'm using this url: put file:// specialFolderPath(documents) slash docs.html into tURL

Re: How to set tab positions in the RTFtext?

2011-09-14 Thread Roger Eller
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Paul Dupuis wrote: See http://www.biblioscape.com/rtf15_spec.htm#Heading32 On 9/14/2011 5:02 PM, Roger Eller wrote: I've been busily coding colorized htmlText in a table field. Now, the users want me to make it export to an RTF file and retain the colors.

Re: How to set tab positions in the RTFtext?

2011-09-14 Thread stephen barncard
Then I put the htmlText of fld fData into URL file:C:\data.rtf what happens when you put the RTFTEXT of fld data ? is that a typo? On 14 September 2011 15:57, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Mark Stuart mstu...@adaptcrm.com wrote: Hi Roger,

Re: How to set tab positions in the RTFtext?

2011-09-14 Thread Roger Eller
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:32 PM, stephen barncard wrote: Then I put the htmlText of fld fData into URL file:C:\data.rtf what happens when you put the RTFTEXT of fld data ? is that a typo? On 14 September 2011 15:57, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at

Re: Loading a local file into a UIWebView control

2011-09-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
I'm going to say there was supposed to be a cr in there somewhere... On Sep 14, 2011, at 4:29 PM, John Dixon wrote: Jacque.. try... put file:// specialFolderPath(documents) slash docs.html into tURLreplace space with 20% in tURLiphoneControlSet sBrowserID, url, tURL

RE: Loading a local file into a UIWebView control

2011-09-14 Thread John Dixon
There was when I wrote it... but obviously not when it arrived... :-( put file:// specialFolderPath(documents) slash docs.html into tURLreplace space with 20% in tURLiphoneControlSet sBrowserID, url, tURL might be better this time :-) Subject: Re: Loading a local file into a UIWebView

Re: Loading a local file into a UIWebView control

2011-09-14 Thread Gerry Orkin
Nope, it's still missing the return! Weird. Gerry On 15/09/2011, at 10:19 AM, John Dixon wrote: put file:// specialFolderPath(documents) slash docs.html into tURLreplace space with 20% in tURLiphoneControlSet sBrowserID, url, tURL ___

iOS test button issue

2011-09-14 Thread Chipp Walters
Just got around to installing 4.6.4 and my test button no longer works. I've checked the prefs, and it has the right path to /Developer and my Standalone build prefs seem to look OK. Any thing else I should look for? -- Chipp Walters CEO, Shafer Walters Group, Inc.

Re: Loading a local file into a UIWebView control

2011-09-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/14/11 6:29 PM, John Dixon wrote: Jacque.. try... put file:// specialFolderPath(documents) slash docs.html into tURLreplace space with 20% in tURLiphoneControlSet sBrowserID, url, tURL Thanks, but my path doesn't have any spaces, it's just as I typed it here. I tried it anyway

Re: iOS test button issue

2011-09-14 Thread Chipp Walters
Turns out if I go into the Development Menu, then select a 'Test Target,' the button will enable. On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Chipp Walters ch...@chipp.com wrote: Just got around to installing 4.6.4 and my test button no longer works. I've checked the prefs, and it has the right path to

Re: Loading a local file into a UIWebView control

2011-09-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/14/11 6:29 PM, John Dixon wrote: Jacque.. try... put file:// specialFolderPath(documents) slash docs.html into tURL Anyone know how many slashes should there be? I've seen examples with none, one, two, and three. I also tried setting the defaultfolder to documents and using just

Re: Loading a local file into a UIWebView control

2011-09-14 Thread Gerry Orkin
Mine works with 2, but oddly, if I remove the %20 replace it doesn't. Here's an example: put file:// specialFolderPath(Documents)/hearts.html into localURL replace with %20 in localURL iphoneControlSet sHeartsScrollerId, url, localURL Gerry On 15/09/2011, at 11:59 AM, J. Landman Gay

Re: Loading a local file into a UIWebView control

2011-09-14 Thread Roger Eller
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 9:59 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 9/14/11 6:29 PM, John Dixon wrote: Jacque.. try... put file:// specialFolderPath(documents) slash docs.html into tURL Anyone know how many slashes should there be? I've seen examples with none, one, two, and three. I also

Re: Loading a local file into a UIWebView control

2011-09-14 Thread chris thompson
Here is a code snippet that works for me: put file:// specialFolderPath(documents) /MyFile.html into theURL replace space with %20 in theURL iphoneControlCreate browser put the result into browserID iphoneControlSet browserID, visible, true iphoneControlSet browserID, url,

provisioning nightmares-- any help?

2011-09-14 Thread Chipp Walters
After I've created a certificate, then created a provisioning profile and installed both, then assigned an APP ID and made sure it's also in the LC standalone settings along with the correct provisioning filename, I do a build. And after I build, I drag drop the bundle onto my Applications tab in

Re: provisioning nightmares-- any help?

2011-09-14 Thread Chipp Walters
Thanks to a thread here initiated by Scott Rossi awhile back, Harald Müller mentioned You could check if your Bundle ID is right: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#technotes/tn2009/tn2242.html And upon checking, I saw where I had different capitalization for bundle IDs: 'altPad' in one

Re: Loading a local file into a UIWebView control

2011-09-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/14/11 9:13 PM, chris thompson wrote: Here is a code snippet that works for me: put file:// specialFolderPath(documents) /MyFile.html into theURL replace space with %20 in theURL iphoneControlCreate browser put the result into browserID iphoneControlSet browserID,

Re: Loading a local file into a UIWebView control

2011-09-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/14/11 9:11 PM, Roger Eller wrote: With file: and binfile: on Windows, I never put slashes after : put quote file: specialFolderPath(documents) slash docs.html quote into tURL That's what I'm doing to copy the files to the documents folder, and that part works. Still tinkering with

Re: Loading a local file into a UIWebView control

2011-09-14 Thread Roger Eller
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:11 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 9/14/11 9:11 PM, Roger Eller wrote: With file: and binfile: on Windows, I never put slashes after : put quote file: specialFolderPath(documents) slash docs.html quote into tURL That's what I'm doing to copy the files to the

Re: Loading a local file into a UIWebView control

2011-09-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
Okay. Solved. Loading a local file does NOT work in the simulator. My script, which is similar to all your examples, works great on my real live iPad. At least I know now. I wish I'd known sooner. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software

Re: Loading a local file into a UIWebView control

2011-09-14 Thread Gerry Orkin
Loading a local file does NOT work in the simulator. My script, which is similar to all your examples, works great on my real live iPad. D'oh. I knew that from my own bitter experience loading local .pdfs. Sorry, should have remembered :( Gerry

Re: revFontLoad: font size issues?

2011-09-14 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Curt Ford wrote: thanks for the ideas.. I'm not sure what you mean by explicitly setting the font styling at startup - would that be setting the textSize textFont of the stack, or something else? In a handler, or the stack's property inspector, or both? Yes, I meant cycling

Re: Loading a local file into a UIWebView control

2011-09-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/14/11 10:28 PM, Gerry Orkin wrote: Loading a local file does NOT work in the simulator. My script, which is similar to all your examples, works great on my real live iPad. D'oh. I knew that from my own bitter experience loading local .pdfs. Sorry, should have remembered :( That's okay.